Sentences with phrase «founded by former employees»

Actually, it is not owned by a chinese firm, it is owned by HMD Global, which is a Finnish company founded by former employees of Nokia.

The graphics and animation quality are top - notch, and the fact that Naughty Dog helped out this studio (which was founded by a former employee) undoubtedly benefited this title.

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Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

VieVu, founded in 2007 by ex-Seattle police officer and former Taser employee Steve Ward, has about 4,000 law enforcement agencies in 17 countries using its body cameras and digital video storage.

German software company SAP (originally «Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung», or System Analysis and Program Development) was founded by five former IBM employees in 1972.

Yahoo has acquired Lexity, the app - centric ecommerce platform founded by former long - time Yahoo employee Amit Kumar.

The company was acquired by Google in 2013 during a robotics shopping spree led by Android creator Andy Rubin, but the team struggled to find its place within the tech giant after Rubin's departure, former Boston Dynamics employees said.

Founded in 2011 by Jake Horowitz and former Goldman Sachs employee Chris Altchek, Mic is a news site aiming to be the voice of the digital generation — 73 % of Mic's 20 million monthly readers are younger than 35.

Mobike, which was founded in late 2015 by a former Uber China employee, first grew popular in Shanghai and is now in 23 cities across China.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

Earlier this year, Waymo accused Uber of using stolen tech to kick - start its autonomous car program after Uber acquired Otto, another self - driving car company, that was founded by a former Google employee.

PhonePe was founded in December 2015 by former Flipkart employees Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

At the heart of the story is Fusion GPS, a Washington - based research firm founded by former Wall Street Journal employees.

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This is not the first instance of an established company taking legal action against a startup founded by some of its former employees.

Uber's system also includes a peer - evaluation section, and former employees said people who received glowing feedback from coworkers could still find themselves being handed a one or two by a manager, sometimes with little or no explanation of why.

Anthony Levandowski, a former Google employee who founded the now Uber - owned self - driving truck company Otto, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self - incrimination Wednesday, according to a transcript of the private court hearing reviewed Thursday by USA TODAY.

Brooklyn landlords looking to quickly cash in on a booming real - estate market found a way to bypass a lengthy building inspection process: call on a «shadow utility company» set up by a former National Grid employee to install illegal gas lines, authorities said.

Rattner founded Quadrangle, a private equity group, from which Bloomberg removed roughly $ 5 billion of his personal fortune in February, giving his cash to a new entity staffed by former Quadrangle employees to manage.

Bumble was founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe (who also co-founded Tinder), with the help of Badoo CEO Andrey Andreev and former Tinder employees Chris Gulczynski and Sarah Mick.

An all - star cast (Melissa Leo, Adam Scott, Peter Fonda, Juno Temple, Mad Men's Vincent Katheiser) recount the stranger - than - fiction tale of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the woman who founded the American Atheists organization back in the early Sixties, helped to get Bible - reading out of schools and was later kidnapped and killed by one of her former employees.

Founded by former educator, Paula Smith, ValuTeachers helps Charter School employees safely save for retirement using 403 (B) Retirement Plans.

The group was founded by attorney Kesana Durand, a former charter employee and board member of several charters.

«Caledon was founded in 2006 by David Rogers, the former head of the private equity group of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System («OMERS») pension plan and a member of the Board of Directors of the parent company for OMERS» direct infrastructure investment arm — Borealis Infrastructure.»

AMG was founded by a former Mercedes - Benz employee in 1967 and has been customizing and racing Mercedes - Benz vehicles since then.

Upstart was founded by former Google employees who had backgrounds in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The company was «founded by ex-Googlers» (former Google employees) to provide personal loans using very different lending criteria than is common even for P2P lenders, to say nothing of banks.

March 2017 update: Affidavit submitted to court by former employee details how PETA lies to acquire animals to kill, steals pets from homes, kills highly adoptable animals such as puppies and kittens without ever trying to find them homes, and kills feral cats using cruel methods: nathanwinograd.com/?p=1727 2

Founded by former Southwest employees, the low - cost airline commenced operations in 2000.

Campo Santo was originally founded in 2013 by former employees of Telltale Games.

The company was founded by Dennis Mendel, a former scholar of game studies at Fraunhofer (focusing on game preservation, gaming literacy, and media effects) and past employee of Square Enix as well as Benedict Braitsch, a student of media science.

Media Molecule was founded in 2006 by a group of former Lionhead Studios employees and LittleBigPlanet was the first game to be developed by the company.

Project Gotham Racing 5: Bizarre was closed years ago, but Lucid Games was founded by Bizarre former employees.

World Of Goo is a physics - based puzzle game created by independent developer 2D Boy, which was founded by Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both of whom are former Electronic Arts employees.

This seems to confirm long - standing rumors that the studio founded by former Infinity Ward employees was working on a futuristic first - person shooter.

As the head of a relatively unknown team, albeit staffed by experienced developers and a smattering of former Epic - employees (just like himself), finding the right way to do a Gears game on Xbox One was the first and most important challenge.

July 17, 1981 Imagic was founded by 9 former Atari and Mattel employees to create games for the 2600 and Intellivision.

Look at Playtonic, founded by and staffed by former Rare employees: it's just a fraction of Rare, and it only went and did the highest - funded UK video game in Kickstarter history.

This will feel very familiar as Night School Studio was founded by former Telltale employees.

Indeed, it is with some irony that Telltale Games is founded by a group of former LucasArts employees who have previously worked on the canceled sequel.

At the trial, several former Knoedler employees — including Melissa De Medeiros, who was Freedman's assistant, and Edye Weissler, the gallery's librarian — said they had done provenance research into the Rosales works to find documentation that proved the paintings were purchased decades ago by a Swiss collector with the help of either Ossorio or Herbert.

The ferocity of National Grid's pursuit of its former employees is emphasised by the fact that it claimed a sum of # 5.26 m plus costs, which the judge found to be far in excess of what the defendants were alleged to have received from their dishonest activities.

Arlette Ricci (pictured, top)-- who may appeal — is the first high - profile individual to be found guilty of tax fraud after the details of more than 100,000 accounts from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm were leaked in 2010 by Herve Falciani, a former employee of the bank.

And this morning, Peter Lattman of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog had the scoop on a «hot off the presses» ruling by federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who found that that prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a group of former KPMG partners in pressuring the firm not to advance them legal fees (I originally blogged about the matter here in the context of how much we should expect corporations to stand up for customer or employee rights when government comes knocking on the corporate door).

The firm specialises in global compliance for employee incentives and share plans and was founded in 2011 by Janet Cooper, the former head of Linklaters» global incentives team, and Bob Grayson, who was global head of compliance at Shell.

Recent matters include successfully defending a mesothelioma claim made by a former employee of the client, and acting for Markerstudy in the successful dismissal of personal injury claims that were found to be fundamentally dishonest.

Most recently, the SEC found that a company violated the whistleblower provisions by entering a separation agreement with a former employee of a subsidiary, who had raised concerns about potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, that prevented the employee from communicating with the SEC by threatening a substantial fine for violating non-disclosure terms.

Once this is established the evidentiary burden then shifts to the employer to prove that the former employee failed to mitigate his or her damages by failing to take reasonable steps to find new employment.

HALIFAX — An independent human rights board of inquiry has found a former employee of Nova Scotia's Black Educators Association was discriminated against by the organization, which must pay her $ 11,000 in general damages and lost income.